- Author:
- Stuart Reeves
Interaction with computers is becoming an increasingly ubiquitous and public affair. With more and more interactive digital systems being deployed in places such as museums, city streets and performance venues, understanding how to design for them is becoming ever more pertinent. Crafting interactions for these public settings raises a host of new challenges for human-computer interaction, widening the focus of design from concern about an individual's dialogue with an interface to also consider the ways in which interaction affects and is affected by spectators and bystanders.Designing Interfaces in Public Settings takes a performative perspective on interaction, exploring a series of empirical studies of technology at work in public performance environments. From interactive storytelling to mobile devices on city streets, from digital telemetry systems on fairground rides to augmented reality installation interactive, the book documents the design issues emerging from the changing role of technology as it pushes out into our everyday lives.Building a design framework from these studies and the growing body of literature examining public technologies, this book provides a new perspective for understanding human-computer interaction. Mapping out this new and challenging design space, Designing Interfaces in Public Settings offers both conceptual understandings and practical strategies for interaction design practitioners, artists working with technology, and computer scientists.
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Index Terms
- Designing Interfaces in Public Settings: Understanding the Role of the Spectator in Human-Computer Interaction
Reviews
Alyx Macfadyen
To what extent does the user affect a participatory narrative, and how can an author constrain user interaction without losing user engagement__?__ This is the narrative paradox. The author's focus on interfaces in public settings is a worthwhile and interesting approach to understanding this paradox. Reeves' book is a great outcome of his PhD, and is relevant to many scenarios and digital infrastructures that people deploy or are involved with every day. From an academic perspective, for example, we are losing faculty and increasing staffing for educational technologists. This is true in many other corporate structures, and filters down to our smartphones. Reeves recognizes that many bridges exist between humans and computers, and the resources that align perspectives from all of the stakeholders are paramount. The book consists of nine chapters; this review addresses some of the more interesting ones. What strongly appeals to me is the content in chapter 8, which advances a framework for designing interfaces in public settings. In this chapter, the author concedes that the roles of performers and spectators must be glossed over in order to undertake the proposed analysis. The author clearly explicates the key terms; "performer,"? "interface,"? and "performance"? definitions provide the structure for framework relationships. Even this interesting study, however, does not resolve the pesky narrative paradox. Although Aylett and Louchart [1], Reidl et al. [2], and even thinkers as far back as Aristotle [3] have advanced frameworks and interactive narrative or story-making analytics, there is no resolution or methodology that we can deploy with confidence when we are designing interaction between humans and computational systems. Reeves does, however, present an interesting survey in chapter 4 that covers augmented reality via a public art installation; he documents how the audience becomes participant. Chapter 5 examines a storytelling event, as well as other sample environments in the chapters that follow. Reeves does not propose a silver bullet for this interesting area of study. Instead, he presents a valid survey that is well worth looking at if you are interested in human-computer interaction (HCI). Do not overlook this book. Online Computing Reviews Service
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